25 De Abril Bridge Remains Portugal's Busiest Crossing 60 Years On
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25 de Abril Bridge remains Portugal's busiest crossing 60 years on
Opened in 1966, the 25 de Abril Bridge is marking its 60th anniversary. The crossing between Lisbon and Almada remains the busiest over the Tagus, with around 150,000 vehicles a day, while a new road-rail link between Chelas and Barreiro is planned.
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Correio da Manhã"With about 500 drones, the show will draw in the sky a journey through time, evoking the construction, evolution and determining role of the 25 April Bridge in the lives of millions of Portuguese people," they said in the same note
About 500 drones will draw in the sky a journey in time on the construction and evolution of the bridge. The show is scheduled for 00:00 on Thursday, will be visible from the Docks area in Lisbon and will count on the presence of the Minister of Infrastructure
The 25th of April Bridge celebrates this Thursday, August 6th, six decades of history. To mark the ephemeride, about 500 drones will illuminate the skies over the river Tagus in a show in...
Six decades after the inauguration, the 25th of April Bridge remains the main link between Lisbon and the south bank of the Tagus. Symbol of Portuguese engineering and capital, it remains the most busy bridge in the country.
The 60th anniversary of the 25th of April Bridge was marked with a 500-drone show on the Tagus River, in a tribute to the infrastructure that connects the two banks and that was inaugurated on 6 August 1966. At the time, it opened to traffic with the name of Ponte Salazar, a designation that would be changed after the fall of the New State. When it was completed, the bridge was the largest suspended metal structure in Europe. Currently, it is cr…
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